📖WEB · 2 Samuel 23:5
What does 2 Samuel 23:5 mean?
"Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow."
— 2 Samuel 23:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,
shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand,
But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”
These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb Basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.
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